For me personally, I almost thought this episode would end with Ryan's suicide as a way for Kevin Bacon to escape this show.

Whatever may be said about Todd Blackledge the man (haven't heard a bad word about him), Todd Blackledge as the Chiefs' 7th pick in this draft, given the alternatives and how things turned out, burns like water on the Wicked Witch to Chiefs fans.

This makes me miss Conan's nakedmanatee.com, which apparently expired when Conan's NBC contract expired.

I can't remember how old that episode is from (having to do with a comedian doing what Michael Jackson was accused of doing with boys), but this may be a stealth firstie.

“What is wrong with you?”

I mean, this show has a developed idea centering around a cult figure and his FBI nemesis.  Well, good enough.  And there's the formality of a back and forth between the villain and anti-hero where there's supposed to be character revelation.

I watched a lot of basketball over the weekend, but I managed to miss seeing a Kansas player (whose team I follow) grab a Michigan player by the balls on Friday night.  I happened to be running an errand and only heard it on the radio that that Louisville player suffered a ghastly broken leg that protruded out of his…

The ridiculousness of the guy in that mask intruded on Police Squad! territory.

It's an improvement.  The story seems to have abandoned the story line whose drama involved when Charlie would first pop her killing cherry.

I'm trying to get into this show, but the cop side of the drama is uneven, and the dynamic among the cult wavers between these types of organizations:

I'll echo that Trace is worth the buy - it's a plausible transition from late-era Uncle Tupelo electric action splashed with some quiet acoustic work.  The stuff after that almost sounds less like a work of art and more like a doctoral dissertation in alt-country set to music.  Bloodless.

Eh, I kind of liked the opener.  The flash-forward gives it an interesting dimension, more so if it could evolve beyond an excuse to give exposition outside the action of the episode.  McBride's character mentions he has only two years left on the job, which I don't know if it means this is going to give an evolution…

I was thinking the same thing.  I'm guessing the montage was a nod to the way series finales used to wrap up back in the 80s, where the montage would evoke all of the memories the audience found so dear over the years.  I'm old enough to remember the M*A*S*H finale (30 years ago next week), but all I remember is some…

Just to make it clear, this inventory is limited to *oscar nominees* and their origins?

Am I that far off to say that Anne Murray is the Canada version of Karen Carpenter?

"My Left Foot"

Loved that joke.

I'm late to the party, but I have a submission:  Sifl and Olly - this was a puppet show on MTV in the late 90s for a couple of years.  Very hip humor for the time (1998-99, by my recollection), but not released on DVD as far as I know.

I wholeheartedly agree with this review.  Double adult-child sex jokes for the loss.

Maybe.  If Emma is the "field boss" of the cult where she's the surrogate leader and potential usurper. I could see some potential.  But that's still a lot of hurdles to clear on the plausibility scale.